I came to this work through my own experience of feeling capable but somehow never quite landing. Of knowing there was more in me than was coming out. Of wanting to be part of something meaningful and finding the door kept not opening. I’m someone who has been walking this terrain for a long time, who knows it well, and who has found that the most useful thing I can offer is to be genuinely present with someone else who is walking it too.

I trained as a coach because it felt like coming home. I’ve been doing this work since 2007 with clients in New Zealand and internationally. I hold a Professional Certified Coach credential with the ICF, and I’m a Certified Trauma-Informed Coach. What that means in practice is that I know how to work with the whole person - not just the presenting problem, not just the professional goals, but the deeper patterns underneath.

When I’m in with you, I’m really in with you. My clients tell me they know I care. They feel it and they trust me. Some coaches may think this a burden or beyond boundaries, but it’s just how I was built. This is what I do. And, I pay close attention to what you’re not saying as much as what you are. I notice what you maybe are unaware you’re skipping over.

I work best with people who are reflective and thinkers. Those who’ve done some work on themselves, and who are tired of not being recognised, not using their potential, being misjudged or marginalised and feeling lonely. People who need someone outside their world - their organisation, their network, their life - who will ask different questions, share perspectives, and stay in their corner.

If that’s what you’re looking for, I think we’d work well together.

Qualifications & Credentials

• Professional Certified Coach (International Coaching Federation)

• Certified Trauma-Informed Coach (Moving the Human Spirit)

• Certified Enneagram Practitioner (The Narrative Enneagram)

• Qualified Action Inquiry & Global Leadership Profile Coach (Global Leadership Associates)

• Certified Vertical Mindset Indicator Coach (Adeption)

• Results Associate Certified Coach (NeuroLeadership Group)

• Conversations at the Growing Edge (Growth Edge Coaching)

• Mindfulness and Somatic Coaching Trained (Mindfulness Coaching)

• Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Certified Practitioner - CPP Asia Pacific

• HSP Certified Coach - The Highly Sensitive Person

• Love + Work Leader - Marcus Buckingham

• Certified i4 Practitioner - About My Brain

And:

• Bachelor of Management Studies (Waikato)

• Graduate Certificate in Career Development (Auckland University of Technology)

• Diploma of Secondary School Teaching (Auckland)